Brecht Savelkoul
@brecht.pamphlets.me
High-functioning technophobe. Private intellectual.
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So I've been away for a month because the queues for my server got clogged up and I put off doing the necessary maintenance until now. What did I miss?
October 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
So I've been away for a month because the queues for my server got clogged up and I put off doing the necessary maintenance until now. What did I miss?
Reposted by Brecht Savelkoul
“We argue that higher dependency ratios associated with the demographic transition can be considered a manageable challenge for many”
Declining Fertility Leading to Long-Term Stability in Demographic Dependency Ratios
Higher dependency ratios associated with the demographic transition can be considered a manageable challenge for many.
www.adb.org
June 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“We argue that higher dependency ratios associated with the demographic transition can be considered a manageable challenge for many”
Ignorant Westerner: I love Chinese food!
Me, an expert extraordaire in Chinese language and civilisation: Actually you'll find that the proper translation is not "Chinese food" but "food of China".
Me, an expert extraordaire in Chinese language and civilisation: Actually you'll find that the proper translation is not "Chinese food" but "food of China".
May 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Ignorant Westerner: I love Chinese food!
Me, an expert extraordaire in Chinese language and civilisation: Actually you'll find that the proper translation is not "Chinese food" but "food of China".
Me, an expert extraordaire in Chinese language and civilisation: Actually you'll find that the proper translation is not "Chinese food" but "food of China".
How do you pronounce the "Hbf" in the names of German train stations? Wrong answers only please.
April 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
How do you pronounce the "Hbf" in the names of German train stations? Wrong answers only please.
less is more and more is fewer
March 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
less is more and more is fewer
ACAB includes all those people on the train who gave my dirty looks for playing out some sick tunes from the speakers of my phone.
March 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
ACAB includes all those people on the train who gave my dirty looks for playing out some sick tunes from the speakers of my phone.
Spotted a ~10yo with a Bored Apes hoodie. What's the story there?
March 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Spotted a ~10yo with a Bored Apes hoodie. What's the story there?
Reposted by Brecht Savelkoul
@brecht
My favorite is that it isn't a paradox. They have been in contact with the ants for thousands of years and the collaboration has been very fruitful. Silly of us to think we are the most interesting thing on a whole planet of living things and in particular silly to think we are more […]
My favorite is that it isn't a paradox. They have been in contact with the ants for thousands of years and the collaboration has been very fruitful. Silly of us to think we are the most interesting thing on a whole planet of living things and in particular silly to think we are more […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
March 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
@brecht
My favorite is that it isn't a paradox. They have been in contact with the ants for thousands of years and the collaboration has been very fruitful. Silly of us to think we are the most interesting thing on a whole planet of living things and in particular silly to think we are more […]
My favorite is that it isn't a paradox. They have been in contact with the ants for thousands of years and the collaboration has been very fruitful. Silly of us to think we are the most interesting thing on a whole planet of living things and in particular silly to think we are more […]
My favourite solution for the Fermi paradox is that we're a remote and purposefully uncontacted civilisation, monitored from a distance by the intergalactic equivalent of FUNAI.
March 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
My favourite solution for the Fermi paradox is that we're a remote and purposefully uncontacted civilisation, monitored from a distance by the intergalactic equivalent of FUNAI.
People on here like to compare Xitter, Meta and the likes to nazi bars. That works to an extent. But I'd say it's more instructive to think of them as casinos. Because however skilled you are at playing the game, you cannot beat the house.
January 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
People on here like to compare Xitter, Meta and the likes to nazi bars. That works to an extent. But I'd say it's more instructive to think of them as casinos. Because however skilled you are at playing the game, you cannot beat the house.
You know The Star-Splangled Banner makes a lot more sense once you realise that the "home of the brave" line is sarcasm.
January 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
You know The Star-Splangled Banner makes a lot more sense once you realise that the "home of the brave" line is sarcasm.
Here's to hoping that many of his fellow travellers follow the lead of J.M. Le Pen in this blessed year 2025.
January 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Here's to hoping that many of his fellow travellers follow the lead of J.M. Le Pen in this blessed year 2025.
The issue with Pekinology is that yesterday's reasonable assumptions often become the "proven facts" behind tomorrow's reasonable assumptions. Rinse and repeat for several years, and you end up with a framework of analysis that has no provable relation to reality any more.
December 16, 2024 at 4:37 PM
The issue with Pekinology is that yesterday's reasonable assumptions often become the "proven facts" behind tomorrow's reasonable assumptions. Rinse and repeat for several years, and you end up with a framework of analysis that has no provable relation to reality any more.
I don't know about any of you, but I for one am going to laugh very hard in about a decade or so, when all the children of these birth-rate-obsessed reactionaries start rebelling in unison.
November 26, 2024 at 7:31 PM
I don't know about any of you, but I for one am going to laugh very hard in about a decade or so, when all the children of these birth-rate-obsessed reactionaries start rebelling in unison.
Found myself wondering how things are going over at post.news these days...
> 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Oh.
> 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Oh.
November 20, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Found myself wondering how things are going over at post.news these days...
> 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Oh.
> 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Oh.
Life's to short to hold grudges. That's why I try to reserve mine for immortal beings such as vampires, long-dead philosophers, and corporations.
November 16, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Life's to short to hold grudges. That's why I try to reserve mine for immortal beings such as vampires, long-dead philosophers, and corporations.
So it seems I accidentally broke sending out posts from this server about three weeks ago. So no one's been reading any of my stuff the entire time and I didn't even notice until now. Awkward.
November 14, 2024 at 2:32 PM
So it seems I accidentally broke sending out posts from this server about three weeks ago. So no one's been reading any of my stuff the entire time and I didn't even notice until now. Awkward.
Tang Seng on his return to Chang'an (probably): "Ultimately, while invaluable in their own right, these newly discovered texts raise more questions than they answer."
October 15, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Tang Seng on his return to Chang'an (probably): "Ultimately, while invaluable in their own right, these newly discovered texts raise more questions than they answer."
[server admin; microblog.pub]
Seems like there's some kind of memory leak in the microblog.pub code. I have to restart the server processes at least once a day to keep things running smoothly. I'm very happy overall on this new server, but this is definitely something I need to fix before I […]
Seems like there's some kind of memory leak in the microblog.pub code. I have to restart the server processes at least once a day to keep things running smoothly. I'm very happy overall on this new server, but this is definitely something I need to fix before I […]
Original post on brecht.pamphlets.me
brecht.pamphlets.me
September 30, 2024 at 8:10 PM
[server admin; microblog.pub]
Seems like there's some kind of memory leak in the microblog.pub code. I have to restart the server processes at least once a day to keep things running smoothly. I'm very happy overall on this new server, but this is definitely something I need to fix before I […]
Seems like there's some kind of memory leak in the microblog.pub code. I have to restart the server processes at least once a day to keep things running smoothly. I'm very happy overall on this new server, but this is definitely something I need to fix before I […]
Decided to get the BlueSky bridge set up on this account. It's on my personal single-user instance, so no side-effects to worry about. Let's see how it goes.
September 27, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Decided to get the BlueSky bridge set up on this account. It's on my personal single-user instance, so no side-effects to worry about. Let's see how it goes.